Hi Ben,

Quoting Ben Hutchings (2025-05-03 16:46:02)
> reform-tools installs a kernel hook under /usr/share/kernel.  As you know,
> this currently only works with unofficial kernel packages.
> 
> The official kernel packages should support this in trixie, but I
> still do not want packages to rely on this until *after* the trixie
> release.  There is no way to depend on "a new enough kernel package"
> other than through the requirement that systems are fully upgraded to
> one stable release before upgrading further.
> 
> If you are not convinced by that, then there is another problem for
> partial upgrades: if debianutils is not upgraded to at least version
> 5.21 then this hook will cause kernel package installation to fail as
> it will try to pass 2 hook directories to run-parts which is not
> supported.  So you should add a versioned dependency on debianutils if you
> leave the hook under /usr/share/kernel for the trixie release.

the package also ships a symlink in /etc/kernel. Is that not enough?

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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